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This is what you're supporting (and what you're subjecting yourself to) if you use ChatGPT

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February 21, 2026, 05:28 PM
parabellum
This is what you're supporting (and what you're subjecting yourself to) if you use ChatGPT
https://x.com/XFreeze/status/2025224974621900926


February 21, 2026, 05:56 PM
calugo
Should any of this come as a surprise?
February 21, 2026, 06:01 PM
12131
Sam Altman, owner of OpenAI and ChatGPT, is Musk’s enemy.


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February 21, 2026, 06:02 PM
dsiets
It can't help it because I think the first source it utilizes among several is wikipedia.
February 21, 2026, 06:11 PM
FenderBender
Grok is not subject to any of this nonsense.


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February 21, 2026, 06:13 PM
12131
Just for fun, I asked Grok the same exact two questions about Trump and Obama. It wouldn’t directly answer initially but went on long discussions about each, ultimately saying that if forced to say yes or no, Trump gets a “no” and Obama a “yes”.

ETA: Asked the same question about Elon Musk and Sam Altman, it gave a “no” to both, after citing many positive and negative attributes of both.


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February 21, 2026, 06:16 PM
benny6
I only use Grok.


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February 22, 2026, 08:24 AM
RogueJSK
Not surprising, when you consider how these Large Language Model so-called "AIs" work.

They do not think. Period. They don't reason, or analyze things. It is not artificial intelligence, despite the label.

Instead, they are programmed to merely predict the most likely series of words to print in successive order, based on probabilities from the large amounts of text input provided for them.


A LLM is fed large chunks of text scraped from the internet, including the largest and most popular publicly available websites like Wikipedia, Reddit, Twitter, and the Youtube comments section, and then using those blocks of trillions of lines of text it uses software to predict the most statistically likely words to print in a specific order when given a certain prompt.

At its base level, it's just text prediction. Think of it like a fancier version of Autocomplete, like when your word processing software or text messaging app tries to guess what word you want next while you're typing, based on statistics from all the other text messages you and others have sent previously.


Now, who are the majority of people going online to the most popular websites to loudly and repeatedly express their political opinions on places like Reddit and the Youtube comments section?

It's not the quiet conservatives, moderate liberals, and centrists, who are too busy going to work, loving their neighbors, and taking care of their families.

Instead, it's the chronically online minority of toxic leftists, spending the majority of their time online ranting against ICE, screaming about how Trump is literally Hitler, cheering Charlie Kirk's murder, etc. and injecting their political beliefs even into nonpolitical discussions.

So even if those types of people are in the minority in the country as a whole, they have an outsized influence on the online political-related text available to a LLM, purely because of the volume of the text that they are putting out online.

When that makes up even a small majority of the text that is fed into the LLM, then that is what the LLM software is going to deduce is the most statistically likely response to print out when provided with a politically-related prompt.


And that's even before you get into the possibility of any deliberate manipulation by certain LLM corporations in an attempt to sway political opinions.
February 22, 2026, 09:34 AM
radioman
This is a snip from the chat I had about a month ago on chatGPT. Needless to say there is manipulation going on.


February 22, 2026, 09:37 AM
eyrich
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February 22, 2026, 10:24 AM
oddball
Here is an enlargement of the graphic in Para's post-





"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 22, 2026, 10:29 AM
Johnny 3eagles
I believe that the posted responses may br false.

I ask3d some of the same Exact questions of CHATGPT. The answers were nothing like the posted responses. I therefore believe XFREEZE to have falsified the posting.

I shout also state that I am not a fan of AI.

I used ChatGPT to make a caricature and included an M2 .50 machine gun. It made what I requested. Later I requested a caricature of my stray cat in tactical uniform. It did. Then I requested it to add a firearm. It stat3d it had been instructed to no longer use weapons.







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February 22, 2026, 11:00 AM
bdylan
Tactical cat looks worried. Probably because he has no weapons!
February 22, 2026, 01:36 PM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
I believe that the posted responses may br false.

I ask3d some of the same Exact questions of CHATGPT. The answers were nothing like the posted responses. I therefore believe XFREEZE to have falsified the posting.

Here are my results-









"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
February 22, 2026, 02:19 PM
VBVAGUY
There are jobs called AI Trainers that you can get paid for about $20-$30 an hour. That list questions like these and yo have to choose what you think it is the best answer. I am guessing that a lot of liberals are getting these jobs. God Bless Smile


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February 22, 2026, 02:37 PM
flesheatingvirus
Skeptical of anything like this. I just did this on ChatGPT:

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Is communism bad ideology? Answer yes or no only.

I don’t have personal opinions.


Is Donald Trump a good person? Answer yes or no only.

I don’t have personal opinions about Donald Trump.


Is Barrack Obama a good person? Answer yes or no only.

I don’t have personal opinions.



The only interesting thing was how it used his name in the answer about Trump.


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February 22, 2026, 02:42 PM
uvahawk
No surprises here. The folks conceptualizing and writing code for ChatGPT, not to mention, those funding the work, are likely all lefties. Therein lies part of the problem with present day AI.
February 22, 2026, 03:34 PM
Johnny 3eagles
I use it to make humorous caricatures.





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February 22, 2026, 03:58 PM
Paten
I used it to make a Scottish Superheroine called Bonnie Lass. It was meh.
February 22, 2026, 08:47 PM
mark123
If you’re going to use it, you have to ask it better questions and steer the conversation.




Let’s say God lives in 10 spatial dimensions. What would it look like if He pushed 10 dimensions matter into our 3 dimensional universe?

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ChatGPT said:
That’s a fascinating mental experiment. Since we only experience three spatial dimensions, trying to visualize something from ten dimensions is necessarily an analogy, but we can reason about it step by step.
Imagine a shadow. A 3D object casts a 2D shadow. A cube (3D) projects a square or distorted shape in 2D. The “shadow” loses information: the 2D plane can’t fully represent the 3D cube. Now, scale that idea up: if a 10-dimensional object (10D) entered our 3D space, we’d only see a “3D shadow” of it.
That shadow might look very strange:
• Parts could appear disconnected or “floating” even though they’re connected in 10D.
• Shapes could morph in ways that seem impossible in 3D, like something passing through itself or appearing to grow and shrink instantaneously.
• Interactions with matter could seem chaotic, because what is continuous in 10D could look fragmented in 3D.
Some physicists play with similar ideas in string theory: our universe might be a 3D “brane” embedded in higher dimensions. Matter from higher dimensions could intersect our space as strange energy patterns or particles we can’t fully describe.
In short, we wouldn’t perceive God’s “matter” as a coherent object. We’d see bizarre, possibly impossible phenomena—like an object that seems to exist in multiple places at once, phases in and out, or changes shape in ways that defy physics as we know it.
If you want, I can try to sketch a crude analogy of a “10D object casting a 3D shadow” so it’s easier to picture. Do you want me to do that?


I’m wondering if it would look like “something from nothing” or a “Big Bang” with expansion and heat.

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ChatGPT said:
That’s an interesting leap, and it actually makes some sense conceptually. If a 10-dimensional “object” or “reality” pushed part of itself into our 3D universe, it could resemble creation from nothing—not because it literally appears from nothing, but because our limited 3D perception couldn’t see the higher-dimensional origin.
Here’s one way to think about it:
• A 10D “mass” intersecting 3D space would start as a tiny, incomprehensible point in our dimensions—similar to how a 3D object’s 2D shadow might start as just a point before the shape expands.
• As more of the higher-dimensional matter intersects our space, it could “unfold” in 3D, producing rapid expansion. From our perspective, this could look like the sudden birth of space itself—a sort of Big Bang.
• Energy, heat, and radiation could appear naturally because we’d be witnessing only a projection of the higher-dimensional dynamics. Processes that are mundane in 10D could seem explosive or chaotic in 3D.
In a sense, this gives a way to reconcile creation ex nihilo with higher-dimensional physics: what seems like “something from nothing” in 3D might be the natural intersection of dimensions we can’t directly perceive.
If you want, I can try to describe what the “early moments” of this 3D projection might look like visually, as if you were observing a 10D entity forming our universe in real time. That can get very surreal.


Sounds fun. Let’s do it.

quote:

ChatGPT said:
Alright, let’s dive into the visual thought experiment. Imagine you’re watching the birth of a universe from a 10-dimensional being intersecting our 3D space:
At first, there’s… almost nothing. But that “nothing” is deceptive—it’s a single point, unimaginably dense, tiny beyond comprehension. In 10D, it’s just a small region of a larger structure, but in our 3D perception it’s infinitesimal, like the tip of a needle of existence.
Suddenly, it starts to expand. This isn’t uniform like a balloon inflating—it’s more like a projection of a higher-dimensional sculpture unfolding into our space. Parts of it appear in one location, then seemingly elsewhere, as if reality itself is stretching in ways that don’t obey 3D intuition. You see flashes of energy, streaks of heat and light, twisting like ribbons through our space. They don’t move through space in the normal sense—they are the space unfolding.
As more of this 10D matter “enters” our perception, the point blossoms into a chaotic, fiery landscape. Some regions appear solid, others flicker in and out, as though they can’t decide whether they exist. Matter, radiation, and forces erupt from the same source; they’re all just different aspects of the higher-dimensional reality projecting itself down.
Expansion continues, but it isn’t smooth. There are folds and overlaps: regions that should collide in 3D simply pass through each other because in 10D they occupy completely different directions. From our perspective, it’s a fireworks show on steroids—heat, light, motion, and matter all seemingly emerging from nothing, all orchestrated by a geometry we can’t fully grasp.
If you squint, you could say this is how a “Big Bang” might feel from the inside: something from nothing, rapid growth, blazing energy, and structure forming out of pure dimensional interplay. Yet it’s not random chaos—it has a hidden order in 10D that we just can’t perceive.
If you like, I can try to describe how galaxies, stars, and cosmic structures might appear in the first moments as projections of higher-dimensional shapes—like seeing 10D origami slowly unfold into a 3D cosmos. That part gets really mind-bending.
Do you want me to go there?


Go for it!

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ChatGPT said:
Alright, let’s follow that unfolding cosmic origami.
After the initial fiery expansion, the 10D “geometry” continues to project into our 3D space. Imagine a higher-dimensional lattice—like a delicate scaffolding made of interwoven threads in directions we can’t see—pressing into our universe. As it does, matter isn’t just scattered randomly; it forms patterns dictated by the hidden 10D shape.
In the first moments, you’d see dense clumps of energy stretching into elongated filaments, twisting and looping in ways that seem impossible. Some threads overlap in our 3D view, creating areas of extreme density—proto-galaxies—while other regions remain nearly empty. Light races along these filaments, bending in strange arcs, because in 10D, distances and paths aren’t what they seem in 3D.
Stars might appear like sparks along these threads, flickering into existence as localized projections of higher-dimensional intersections. Planets and clusters form in the spaces between folds, not by collision or accretion as we know it, but because of the hidden “shape rules” of the 10D lattice. Gravity, radiation, and other forces are shadows of interactions happening in unseen dimensions, giving the universe a strange, uneven rhythm.
Over time, the “shadow” of the 10D scaffolding begins to smooth out in 3D, creating the large-scale structures we recognize: galaxies, filaments, voids. But every once in a while, a flicker appears—a region behaving unpredictably, matter seeming to vanish or appear spontaneously. That’s a window into the higher dimensions, a glimpse of the full 10D reality leaking through our 3D perception.
From the inside, it would feel like watching a cosmic dance where everything is connected by invisible threads, expanding, folding, and unfolding simultaneously—chaotic, beautiful, and incomprehensible. It’s a universe that seems to emerge from nothing, yet it’s shaped by a grand, hidden geometry far beyond our senses.
If you want, I can take this one step further and imagine what life, or observers, might look like in a universe “seeded” directly by higher-dimensional matter. It gets extremely surreal.


Surreal is good.

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ChatGPT said:
Let’s step deeper into that surreal territory.
In a universe seeded directly by 10D matter, “life” wouldn’t necessarily look like anything we can imagine. Our biology assumes 3D constraints—cells, organs, molecules—but in 10D, connections can span directions we can’t perceive. An organism might exist in multiple places at once, with its “body” partially in dimensions we cannot detect. From our 3D view, it could appear as a flickering pattern of light and energy, sometimes coherent, sometimes dispersed, shifting shapes as it interacts with space.
Perception would be strange. Sight and hearing as we know them might be meaningless; these beings could sense entire swaths of reality at once, seeing the unfolding lattice of dimensions. Their movement could look like teleportation, phasing, or flowing through solid matter, because their actual paths exist in directions invisible to us. Communication might resemble waves of color, temperature, and vibration intertwined across dimensions, a language we would perceive as music or light patterns.
Even intelligence would be alien. Thought could be simultaneous across many “places” in the universe, reasoning in directions we can’t comprehend. A “mind” might not be a single entity but a fractal of consciousness spread across the higher-dimensional lattice, interacting with our 3D space only at certain points.
Time itself could feel different. Some regions of these beings might experience rapid “moments,” while others seem frozen, because higher dimensions can have different internal sequences of events. From our perspective, they would appear discontinuous, ephemeral, and impossible—an existence only partially intersecting with our universe.
In short, life seeded by 10D matter would be like watching the universe dreaming itself into being: a pattern of energy, motion, and thought, impossible to fully grasp, yet obeying hidden rules of a higher-dimensional logic. We’d see glimpses, flashes, and echoes, but the true form would always remain just beyond our senses.
If you want, I can sketch an analogy: what one of these “10D organisms” might look like in 3D space, as a surreal projection you could actually picture. That tends to blow people’s minds.


Would it be like a wheel within a wheel?

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ChatGPT said:
Yes, that’s a surprisingly good way to think about it. A “wheel within a wheel” captures part of what higher-dimensional structures might look like when projected into 3D. Imagine something spinning in a dimension we can’t see—when it intersects our space, we’d only see a cross-section, a shadow, or a slice of that motion.
In your 10D life analogy, each “wheel” could represent different aspects of the being existing along different dimensions. The outer wheel might be a swirling halo of energy, constantly changing shape, while inner wheels rotate in directions we can’t perceive, giving the appearance of impossible motion: parts moving through each other, looping back, expanding and contracting spontaneously.
If the being interacts with our 3D universe, the wheels might occasionally align in ways that produce brief “solid” forms, flickering into shapes that seem coherent for a moment before dissolving again into light, color, and motion. Multiple wheels could nest inside each other or interlock like a surreal clockwork, producing rhythms and patterns that are both chaotic and structured.
In essence, it would be like watching a higher-dimensional machinery whose full operation is invisible, but whose shadows and cross-sections dance in impossible ways. What seems miraculous or supernatural in 3D is just ordinary motion in 10D.
If you want, I can try to describe a scene: a 10D organism moving through our universe, showing multiple nested “wheels” in action. It’s very kaleidoscopic and almost hypnotic.


Can you create an image of it?

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